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What to Hear and See Inside San Francisco's FOG Design+Art 2020 This Weekend
ArtfixDaily / January 14th, 2020
FOG Design+Art opens on January 16 at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, with a Preview Gala benefitting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on January 15. This year’s fair features a series of thought-provoking conversations and panel discussions in the FOG ...
Harvard Students' Installation in the Sackler Museum Names Opioid Victims
ArtfixDaily / December 9th, 2019
A new art installation at Harvard University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum names local victims and survivors of opioid abuse, taking aim at the family legacy of the benefactor whose name the museum bears and the addictive drug that ballooned the Sackler multibillion dollar fortune while ...
Why the Four Turner Prize Finalists Got a Collective Win
NPR / December 8th, 2019
All four finalists — Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Tai Shani and Oscar Murillo — for the U.K.'s prestigious Turner Prize have won in an unprecedented twist of events last week. The four artists lodged a request with judges that was accepted. After three and half decades of handing ...
A Well-Timed New Book Examines 'The Art of Protest'
ArtfixDaily / December 2nd, 2019
Protest art is in the spotlight, both on streets across the globe and in a new book surveying a 100-year history. Civil rights, social activism, pro-environment and other causes have long been the subject matter of public poster art. The world is currently awash with such temporary artworks ...
A Beijing Museum Suddenly Yanked a Major Exhibition of Chinese-American Artist Hung Liu
San Francisco Chronicle / November 21st, 2019
Years of planning went into “Hung Liu: Passers-by,” a major solo exhibition scheduled to open Dec. 6 at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Artist Hung Liu, who experienced the Cultural Revolution and now lives in Oakland, Calif., was shocked when the Chinese culture ministry ...
Discover Alice Rahon, a Parisian Poet Turned Mexican Surrealist Painter, Whose Works Are Revealed at MOCA North Miami
ArtfixDaily / November 20th, 2019
The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) is set to present a new exhibition featuring works of French-Mexican surrealist painter Alice Rahon (1904–1987). “Poetic Invocations” is guest curated by Mexico-City based art historian Tere Arcq. The exhibition aims to contribute to the ...
The Eskenazi Museum of Art’s $30 Million Renovation of I. M. Pei Building Opens With Suite of Exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / November 19th, 2019
After a two-and-a-half-year renovation, the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art reopened its doors on Nov. 7, 2019. In Bloomington, Indiana, The Eskenazi Museum has completed a $30 million renovation of its acclaimed I. M. Pei-designed building, which was inaugurated in 1982 and features the ...
Baltimore Museum of Art Will Only Acquire Works by Women Artists in 2020
Baltimore Sun / November 17th, 2019
The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking its initiative to focus all its 2020 programs and exhibitions on women artists to a another level. {{image}} "Museum director Christopher Bedford said Thursday that every artwork the BMA obtains for its permanent collection next year — every painting, ...
Kerry James Marshall Painting Brings $18.5 Million at Auction Amid Strong Prices For African American Artists
New York Times / November 17th, 2019
In the New York sales series last week an artwork at Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Sale stirred bidder interest like few other lots. A 2014 painting by Kerry James Marshall garnered $18.5 million (with fees), the second highest price at auction for a work by a living Arrican American ...
A Record for Ed Ruscha Stands Out in Fall Auction Series
New York Times / November 14th, 2019
The fall sales series of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art in New York was not chock-full of blue-chip "trophy" art, according to the New York Times. Timed during an unsettling news cycle coupled with few top-tier collections or estates to offer, the major auction houses saw noteworthy ...
Major Flooding Temporarily Shuts Down the Venice Biennale, But the Show Will Go On
W Magazine / November 13th, 2019
Venice mayor Luigi Bragnaro declared a state of emergency after flood tides inundated the city on Tuesday. The result on Wednesday was a temporary closing of the Venice Biennale's 58th edition, Saint Mark's Basilica, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Pinault Collection's Punta della Dogana and ...
Marciano Art Foundation Closes Following Employees' Plans to Unionize
LA Magazine / November 7th, 2019
Marciano Art Foundation, the new private museum in Los Angeles, announced that it would close its Wilshire Boulevard location with "no present plans to reopen." The news came after all 70 visitor-facing employees were laid off on Thursday, and just days after employees announced plans to ...
U.S. Museum Coalition Plans Exhibitions of Female Artists Ahead of 19th Amendment Centennial and 2020 Presidential Election
ArtfixDaily / November 6th, 2019
On November 5, election day across the U.S., a new website launched as a platform to help promote women artists in museum exhibitions nationwide. Feminist Art Coalition is the brainchild of Apsara DiQuinzio, the senior curator of Modern and contemporary art at the Berkeley Art Museum ...
Steep Rent Hikes Force Out Artists in L.A.'s Historic Santa Fe Art Colony
LA Times / November 1st, 2019
A community of practicing artists in Los Angeles that has thrived for three decades is facing extinction. A new owner of the downtown complex is implementing rent hikes that will likely force the artists to leave their homes and studios. LA Times reports: "The Miami-based development agency ...
In New Exhibits, Art Collectives Meow Wolf and teamLab Are Optimizing the Experience of Art on Their Own Terms
CBS News / November 3rd, 2019
Operating outside of traditional gallery and museum spaces, two art collectives are bringing their work directly to ticket-buying, Instagramming audiences in new exhibitions across the U.S. and in Asia. Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-Based art collective, creates immersive exhibitions in multimedia ...
Mary Margaret 'Moo' Anderson, Pioneering Art Collector and Museum Donor, Remembered
Stanford News / October 24th, 2019
Art collector Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson died Oct. 22 at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area, reports Stanford News. She was 92. Boston-born Moo Anderson was known for amassing a significant collection of post-World War II American art with her late husband, Harry "Hunk" Anderson ...
Three Arrested for Theft of Cattelan's Gold Toilet From Blenheim Palace
Guardian / October 17th, 2019
Arrests have been made in the theft of an 18-karat solid gold toilet sculpture titled America -- part of a Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at Blenheim Palace in the UK -- that was stolen last month. The burglary took place in an overnight heist at the 18th-century palace, known ...
Tim Burton Stages Site-Specific Exhibition at Neon Museum in Las Vegas
View images from Las Vegas Review-journal / October 15th, 2019
For the first time in nearly a decade, renowned American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator Tim Burton will stage an exhibition of his original fine art in the United States. Installed at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, “Tim Burton @ the Neon Museum” comprises a combination of new ...
Banksy 'Devolved Parliament' Snags a Bananas Record Price of $12.2 Million at Auction
Guardian / October 3rd, 2019
As Brexit looms on Halloween, a painted satire of Britain's House of Commons filled with arguing chimpanzees brought an auction record of £9,879,500 ($12,200,000) for street artist Banksy. At the Sotheby's sale in London on Thursday, "Devolved Parliament" jumped well beyond tne ...
A New Kind of 'Art Hub' to Debut in London With Flexible Exhibition and Work Spaces for Members
Evening Standard / September 30th, 2019
A £20 million renovation of 5 historic buildings in London will create an innovative way to work and sell for professionals in the visual arts. Opening in May 2020, Cromwell Place is a new art center and membership organization with 14 gallery spaces set in the heart of South Kensington’s ...